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With a view to develop the educational scenario of the district as per national standards, the Niti Aayog in collaboration with Piramal Foundation recently launched ‘School Transformation Roadmap’ with the support of the district administration and the Education Department.

In a recent study by the National Institution for Transforming India (Niti) Aayog in Dhubri district, it was found that 30% students of the district are not performing well when it comes to education, and that the learning outcome of the students is only 15%.

It may be mentioned that earlier the representatives from NITI Aayog conducted a one-day workshop in all these blocks where more than 107 Cluster Resource Centre Coordinators (CRCC) participated. Later, these CRCC’s conducted workshops for headmasters and prepared their version of ‘School Transformation Roadmap’ according to the need of their school. After that the headmasters launched the roadmaps in their respective schools in the presence of the School Management Committee members, community and students by ‘oath taking.

INTERNATIONAL

· Eleventh World Hindi Conference Underway In Mauritius

After the inauguration session, a condolence meeting will be held in the memory of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
In the afternoon sessions, delegates from 20 countries including India will deliberate on eight sub-topics related to “Hindi World and Indian Culture”.

Gk Bit – World Hindi Conference

World Hindi Conference/ Vishva Hindi Sammelan is a world conference on Hindi language. The conference consists of several Hindi scholars, writers and laureates from different parts of the world to contribute the language.

The first World Hindi Conference was held in 1975 in Nagpur, India. Since then every year 10th January is being observed as World Hindi Day. Till today, ten such Conferences have been held in different parts of the world.

Agriculture minister proposes UNFAO to declare an upcoming year as “International Year of Millets”

The Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Shri Radha Mohan Singh has written to Mr. Jose Graziano da Silva, Director General, United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) and proposed the declaration of an upcoming year as “International Year of Millets”.

The Union Agriculture Minister stated that India is celebrating 2018 as the National Year of Millets and is promoting cultivation by amending cropping pattern of areas which are especially susceptible to climate change.

· UAE to host Asia Cup 2018

The Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) and theEmirates Cricket Board (ECB) declared that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be hosting the Asia Cup 2018. The tournament will be held from September 15 to 28 in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan will be participating in the tournament. The opening game of the tournament will be played by Bangladesh and Sri Lanka at the at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.

Taiwanis building up and developing missiles and interceptors in order to counter the military expansion of China.
Since 2016, under the Presidentship of Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan has deployed one set of missiles, perfected another and sped production of a third. This development in its defence is to reduce Beijing’s military advantage over the self-ruled island.

NATIONAL

In the wake of Hon’ble Prime Minister’s vision for creating digital museums at stations using QR code,Ministry of Railway has made “digital screens” operational at 22 stations on this Independence Day as an innovative low cost solution to spread awareness among public about the opulent heritage of Indian Railways.

Being initiated on a pilot basis, the project aims at showcasing the legacy of Indian Railways through one to two minute-long movie clips.

The short films will showcase heritage buildings, locomotives and much more to make people aware of the rich heritage of Indian Railways.

Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan will today take oath as the 22nd prime minister of Pakistan.The oath-taking ceremony will begin at around 9.15 am (local time).

Khan won a simple majority in Pakistan’s National Assembly with 176 votes, beating his rival Shahbaz Sharif who got 96 votes.

A member of the National Assembly needs 172 votes to become prime minister-elect.

The 2018 Asian Games, officially known as the 18th Asian Games and also known as Jakarta Palembang 2018, is a pan-Asian multi-sport event scheduled to be held from 18 August to 2 September 2018 in the Indonesian cities of Jakarta and Palembang.

For the first time, the Asian Games are being co-hosted in two cities; the Indonesian capital of Jakarta and Palembang, the capital of the South Sumatra province.

Also for the first time, eSports and canoe polo will be contested as demonstration sports.